Lent Activities in Oxford

Lent activities in Oxford
Stations of the Cross, 5.15 pm each Friday in Lent (except Good Friday), Blackfriars (64 St Giles) meditations by a student friar on different stations. All welcome. Mass 6.15 pm.
Enlighten your Lent : Come and join us for an hour of praise, reflection and adoration with Fr. Jean-Baptiste Masson and others members of the Emmanuel Community at 7pm on Wednesday, 29th February, in the Catholic Chaplaincy St Thomas More Chapel. The first evening will be at. All VERY welcome!
The Four Gospels And Paul – Thu Lunchtime Talks 12.30pm, St Giles’ Church 23 Feb: St Luke, Revd Dr Andrew Gregory (Univ); 1 Mar: St Mark, Revd Dr John Muddiman (Mansfield); 8 Mar St Matthew Prof Markus Bockmuehl (Keble); 15 Mar St John, Fr. Peter Edmonds SJ (Campion Hall); 22 Mar: St Paul, Revd Robin Griffith Jones (The Temple, London); www.ocsg.uk.net/
A Quiet Space in Lent: W/E for 21-35’s to share and reflect together and individually at teh Cherwell Centre; suggested donation £50; www.shcj.co.uk

Looking through Lent to Easter

Looking through Lent to Easter: NT Wright, former Bishop of Durham: “Christ is Risen from the Dead, the First Fruits of Those who have Died”, conference to Italian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (with link to article).
http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Italian_Bishops_Christ_Risen_First_Fruits.htm

Open Week

Open Week: Re-creation Sun 26th Feb – Sat 3rd March
Mon 27th Feb Hon Arop Madut MP for South Sudan and international journalist, Sudan’s Painful Road to Peace, from 8pm, with curry from 7pm. All welcome
Tues 28th Feb Climate Change and Christianity: a debate, featuring Nick Chan (St Antony’s) Luke Hughes (Merton) recent attendees at the Durban conference and guest speaker Alex Kirby (Keble and Environmental and Relgious Affairs correspondent for the BBC).
Wed 29th Feb Alternative Careers Fair, with Fr Gerry W Hughes SJ on Pilgrimage, 6pm, plus pasta from 7pm and the fair at 8pm.
Thurs 1st Mar Holy Hour with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 6pm – 7pm. H.E. Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, A Special Address, from 8pm, with curry from
7pm. All welcome.
Fri 2nd Mar Vigil of Reconciliation from 8pm, with pasta from 7pm. All welcome.
Sat 3rd Mar Misa Campesina, (Nicaraguan Mass and singers), followed by fiesta, 6.30pm and the film La Yuma, 7.30pm. All welcome.

Byzantine Mosaics of Sicily

Byzantine Mosaics of Sicily, with Dr Nicholas Gendle, Sat 25 Feb10.30am to 4pm, St Theosevia Centre, 2 Canterbury Rd: Illustrated talks on the magnificent mosaic art of the Norman-Byzantine churches of Sicily, a meeting point for western and eastern Christian cultures. Free for students with cards, others £5 donation.

Newman Society Termly Mass and St Thomas More Lecture

Newman Society Termly Mass, St. Thomas More Lecture and Dinner coming up in Sixth Week on Friday 24th. Mass (Extraordinary Form) 4pm, Merton College Chapel, followed by The St. Thomas More Lecture, given by Fra’ Matthew Festing, Grand Master of the Order of Malta at 5.30pm with Dinner at 7.30pm. All Welcome, to reserve a place for dinner please contact:
Sofia Abasolo- sofia.abasolo@merton.ox.ac.uk

The Week Ahead: Fifth Week

Sun 12th Feb: Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
9.00am Fr Gerry J Hughes SJ
10:15- 10:45am: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Fr J Munitiz SJ
11.00am Fr Dushan Croos SJ preaching
5.45 pm Fr Dushan Croos SJ

Mon 13th: feria
1.05pm Mass; 7.30am-8am, 5.30pm-6pm: Adoration; 8am: Morning Prayer
6pm College Mass at Balliol

Tue 14th: ST CYRIL, monk, & ST METHODIUS, bishop, Patrons of Europe
1.05pm Mass; 7.30am-8am, 5.30pm-6pm: Adoration; 8am: Morning Prayer
6.15pm College Mass at St. John’s

Wed 15th ST CLAUDE LA COMOBIERE SJ
1.05pm Mass; 7.30am-8am, 5.30pm-6pm: Adoration; 8am: Morning Prayer
5.30pm College Mass at Wadham

Thu 16th: feria
1.05pm Mass; 7.30am-8am: Adoration; 8am: Morning Prayer
6pm – 7pm: Holy Hour with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6pm College Mass at Merton
7pm CathSoc pasta plus from 8pm Stratford Caldecott, The Power of the Rings:
The Spiritual Vision Behind “The Lord of the Rings”,

Fri 17th: feria
1.05pm Mass; 7.30am-8am, 5.30pm-6pm: Adoration; 8am: Morning Prayer
6.30pm Prayer for the Curious, with food
7.15pm College Mass at Christ Church Cathedral
From 8 pm Ceilidh in the Newman Room & Bar. All welcome!

Sat 18th: feria
11.15-11.45am Sacrament of Reconciliation
1.05pm Mass

Sun 19th: Seventh Sunday of the Year Ordinary Time
Isaiah 43:18-19,21-22,24-25 (Ps40) & 2 Cor 1:18-22; Mark 2:1-12
9.00am Fr Gerry J Hughes SJ (Campion Hall)
10:15- 10:45am: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Fr J Munitiz
11.00am Mgr Jeremy Fairhead (Parish priest in Camden)
5.45pm Fr John Delaney OFM Cap (Greyfriars)
7.00om Taizé prayer group

St Frideswide

Frideswide Literature: Oxford’s patron Saint, Henry Mayr-Harting, 19 Feb, 8pm Christchurch

Mary Painting and Sculpture

Mary Painting and Sculpture, 12 Feb, 8pm in Christchurch: Mynheer’s Flight to Egypt

The Week Ahead: Third Week

Sun 29th Jan: 4th Sunday of the Year
9.00 am Fr Michael Barnes SJ (Heythrop College)
11.00am Dom Felix Stephens OSB (Master of St Benet’s)
5.45pm Fr Peter Brearley SDB (Parish priest in Cowley)
5.00pm Hertford Evensong, Fr Dushan Croos sj preaching
6.15pm St Hugh’s Evensong, Ms Alex Harrod Preaching, Light in the University

Mon 30th : Monday of week 4 of the year
1.05pm Mass

Tue 31st: St John Bosco, Founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco
1.05pm Mass
5.45pm St Edmund Hall College Mass
6.00pm Jesus College Mass

Wed 1st: Feria
1.05pm Mass

Thu 2nd: FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD
1.05pm Mass
6.00pm Candlelit Mass
7.00pm CathSoc pasta, All welcome, plus Fr John O’Malley SJ, Trent and Vatican II:
Two Anniversaries of Two Misunderstood Councils, 8.15pm Newman Room.

Fri 3rd: St Blaise, bishop & martyr or St Ansgar, bishop
1.05pm Mass with St Blaise’s blessing of throats
6.00pm St Catherine’s College Mass
6.30pm Prayer for the Curious, with food, followed by
8.00pm onwards Bar Night

Sat 4th: Feria
12.00pm Mass
5.30pm Spanish Mass

Sun 5th: Fifth Sunday of the Year Job 7:1-4,6-7 (Ps 146) & 1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23, Mark 1:29-39
9.00 am Fr Simon Bishop SJ
11.00am Rev Nicodème Ferré (Archdiocese of Paris) preaching
5.45pm Fr Dushan Croos SJ

The Week Ahead: Second Week

Sun 22nd Jan: Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
9.00 am Fr Simon Bishop SJ
11.00am Rev Dr Simon Jones (Merton) preaching.
5.45pm Taizé Mass for Christian Unity (DCsj)

Mon 23rd: Monday of week 3 of the year
1.05pm Mass

Tue 24th: Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor:
1.05pm Mass
6.00pm Jesus College Mass
8.00 pm Newman Soc.: Welcome Drinks party in the Wadham room of
the King’s Arms, Free wine for first arrivals

Wed 25th: Conversion of Saint Paul, Feast: Christian Unity Week ends
1.05pm Mass
6.00pm Trinity College Mass

Thu 26th: Saint Timothy and Titus, Bishops,
1.05pm Mass
11am
6pm – 7pm: Holy Hour with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
7pm CathSoc curry plus 8pm, (Blue Room): .Thirst for Change – turning
the tide on water poverty – CAFOD Campaigns Team.

Fri 27th: Saint Angela Merici, Foundress of the Ursuline Sisters.
Holocaust Memorial Day.
11.00am Civic Commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day at County Hall
11.30am Reflection and Prayer at Peace Plaque Bonn Square
1.05pm Mass
6.30pm Catholicism for the Curious, with food, followed by
8.00pm. Bar Night

Sat 28th: St Thomas Aquinas OP, Doctor of the Church
12.00pm Mass

Sun 29th: Fourth Sunday of the Year Deut 18:15-20, Ps 94, I Cor 7: 32-35, Mk 1: 21-28
9.00 am Fr Michael Barnes SJ (Heythrop College)
11.00am Dom Felix Stephens OSB (Master of St Benet’s)
5.45pm Fr Peter Brearley SDB (Parish priest in Cowley)
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